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completely inoperative. Nonetheless, European agents continued to produce postage stamps for Equatorial Guinea that were promoted by so-called press releases from Madrid, Spain. With the exception of the first four issues and another two from 1973, it is doubtful that any stamps between 1972 and 1979 even reached Equatorial Guinea, much less placed on sale there for postage purposes. Most stamp catalogues do not accept the stamps from this period as being legitimate.
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Issues from 1961 on added the inscription "ESPAĂ‘A"; typically two to three issues per year, consisting of two to four stamps each, and usually depicting local plants and animals. Another definitive series appeared in 1964, also with nine values. The last issue of RĂ­o Muni was a set of three signs of
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Upon achieving independence from Spain, Francisco Macias Nguema was elected the first president of Equatorial Guinea. By May 1971, Nguema controlled a government that essentially performed no functions except internal security. From 1972 to 1979, the country's main post office was padlocked and
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Stamps from this period were of course very colourful and of a topical nature. They proved to be attractive to overseas stamp collectors and were readily available, mostly in packets of stamps.
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Fernando Poo and RĂ­o Muni originally used postage stamps of Spanish Guinea until 1960 when the Spanish government decreed the use of separate issues for RĂ­o Muni and
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From 1979 all stamps are designed and printed by the Spanish FNMT, since then a very moderated and decent stamp issuing policy is adopted.
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consisted of nine values, 25 c to 10 p, all with the same design showing a missionary and a native boy reading, and inscribed "RĂŤO MUNI".
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Equatorial Guinea became an independent republic on 12 October 1968 and its first stamps as such were issued on that date.
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A 1999 stamp of Equatorial Guinea typical of the colourful modern issues of this country
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were first issued in 1868 by the Spanish colonial authorities in the capital
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The first stamps of RĂ­o Muni were issued on 27 April 1960. The first
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until they combined to form Equatorial Guinea on 12 October 1968 .
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Postage stamps and postal history of Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco
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for Fernando Poo as a province were issued on 25 February 1960.
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postage stamps
postal history
Equatorial Guinea
Spanish Guinea

the island of Fernando Po
Santa Isabel

RĂ­o Muni
Postage stamps and postal history of Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco
Elobey Grande
Elobey Chico
AnnobĂłn
Corisco
Gulf of Guinea
postage stamps

Guinea region
Fernando Poo
RĂ­o Muni
Spain
Fernando Po
definitive series
definitive series
"Fernando Poo | Stamps and postal history | StampWorldHistory"
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